Abstract:The present article is an attempt to investigate Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy in the light of Žižek's Hegelinspired theorization about subjectivity. It studies Hegelian themes of "absolute negativity" and the "night of the world" that figure prominently in theorization of the Žižekian subject. In so doing, it argues how the characters of The New York Trilogy experience their immediate surroundings as "absolute negativity," as a "no man's land" that is eclipsed by the "night of the world," and how as empt… Show more
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